My Blog
Second Referendum and the European Union
In the last referendum I voted in favour of getting out of the European Union for the reasons giving in my blog below. They are still valid. The European Union may have...
ÇATALHÜYÜK – The first town in the world?
We hired a car in the spring and climbed up from the coast through mountains and then turned across the flat plain towards Konya in southern Anatolia where the poet and...
GÖBEKLI TEPE -The first temple in the world?
We flew - myself and my companion Liz – from Ankara, the capital of Turkey, to Sanliurfa in the south east of the country close to the Syrian border. It is a large...
Hippiedom and the New Society
‘Neo-Hippies’ are back, it seems, in fashion. But I suspect many are like ‘neo-capitalists’ with little conscience. Perhaps it is being like Sir Richard Branson with...
Trump and May
Donald Trump is absurd. He is not only a racist and misogynist and believes in torture but an extreme right-winger who denies the existence of climate change. It seems...
Castro and Cuba
The ‘Jefe Maximo’ (Supreme Leader) Fidel Castro is dead. He may have become been a towering figure in the 20th century but for many he was a highly controversial and...
Turkey’s Failed Coup
I've been going to Turkey's Western and Southern shores for the last five years.I have got to know well the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. My most recent book...
UK referendum on European Union & freedom of speech
I have voted in the referendum to leave the European Union mainly for the following reasons: I would rather be a citizen of the world rather than a member of a...
The Sixth Extinction and Liberation Ecology
It seems that we are in the middle of a mass extinction, the sixth on this Earth. Previously this was due to natural phenomena but this one is largely due to human...
Peter Marshall’s impressive history is a well-argued and absorbing account of astrology’s grip on the imagination, and an eloquent defence of its importance in our lives … fascinating
Gary Lachman, The Guardian
Reading about anarchism is stimulating and funny and sad. What more can you ask of a book?